Some Problems for Convex Bayesians
Kyburg, Henry E. Jr., Pittarelli, Michael
–arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence
The leading contender is Levi's When the set contains only one function, convex conditionalization and E-admissibility reduce to their strict Bayesian counterparts. Thus, with respect to decision making and representing and updating uncertainty, convex Bay· esianism includes strict Bayesianism as a special case. There are natural constraints on probability judg-- ments that cannot be represented by convex sets of classical probability functions. Working with the convex hull of a nonconvex set of probability func-- tions may result in unnecessary indecisiveness. This is not a convex set. Judgments of irrelevance (conditional irrelevance), that is, probabilistic independence (conditional independence}, are often made, are natural to make, can be made reliably, and provide well-known computational advantages [Pearl, 1988].
arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence
Mar-13-2013
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